From WikiLeaks

Not surprising that DHS thinks this. The Internet provides a wide range of asymmetric and more importantly deniable engagement capabilities to various organizations. These attacks do not usually result in more than major nuisances to target organizations - probably at most the destruction of their online communications capabilities for a good portion of time.

The DHS also seems to think that LWE may have to hire crackers in order to engage targets. This is unlikely to be the case, as these groups of LWE, at least from what I know about them, have strong, organic IW capabilities, which RWE are highly unlikely to possess. Simply a difference in cohort ages, and cohort backgrounds. Further, these assets can hide behind proxies and Tor to command a botnet to do their bidding. Anarchists, especially, will have high levels of tech experience and skill, though I wouldn't discount ALF/ELF from having those as well.katana0182 04:21, 28 April 2009 (GMT)